Running back Christian McCaffrey’s absence from the lineup in Week 1 this year would come as less of a surprise than it did last year, but it would be just as big a blow to the 49ers. McCaffrey is listed as questionable to play against the Seahawks on Sunday because of a calf injury that caused him to miss practice …
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GREEN BAY – The Packers have listed defensive lineman Micah Parsons (back) among seven players questionable for Sunday’s opener against the Detroit Lions at Lambeau Field. The other six questionable players are cornerback Nate Hobbs (knee), receivers Jayden Reed (foot), Dontayvion Wicks (calf) and Savion Williams (hamstring), safety Zayne Anderson (knee) and defensive lineman Barryn Sorrell (knee) are also questionable. …
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Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez’s availability for Sunday’s opener has been a storyline all week, but there’s another player to monitor over the remaining hours until they face the Raiders. Head coach Mike Vrabel said that Gonzalez has been ruled out with the hamstring injury that’s kept him out of practice recently. That was expected given his recent inactivity and the …
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About 1,000 of a set of 15,000 open access scientific journals appear to exist mainly to extract fees from naive academics. A trio of computer scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder, Syracuse University, and China’s Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) arrived at this figure after building a machine learning classifier to help identify “questionable” journals and then conducting a …
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A big headline from Sony’s recent earnings call was the news that Bungie was going to start losing some of its independence as it gets folded more fully into the PlayStation studios network. What that means for the future of Destiny 2 is unclear and was not discussed, but Bungie’s other multiplayer game, Marathon, did come up. Marathon’s rollout has …
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It feels like a fever dream, at this point. In the summer of 2023, Lionel Messi positioned himself over a free kick wearing the pink-and-white colors of Major League Soccer’s Inter Miami. Messi’s move to the United States had been long-rumored but often dismissed as wild speculation. The league was still a backwater compared to many in Europe and its …
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